An investigation and analysis on job burnout of medical staffs in minority border areas / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the status of job burnout of medical staffs in minority border areas. Methods A total of 906 medical personnel from Pu'er hospitals in Yunnan Province were as-sessed with Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey (MBI-GS) by t test, descriptive statistics, chi-square test, ANOVA and LSD-t pairwise comparison. Results ①The emotional exhaustion, cynicism and reduced personal accomplishment of medical staffs in minority border areas (1.55±1.40, 0.99± 1.29, 2.47±1.98) are significantly lower than general areas (P=0.000, 0.010, 0.000); ②emotional ex-haustion, cynicism and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) total points of different levels of hospital medi-cal staff, the score of which in descending order aremunicipal, county and township (town) levels (P=0.000, 0.000, 0.000); ③Female medical personnel's emotional exhaustion and cynicism are scored significantly higher than males medical staff (P=0.000, 0.025); ④The scores of emotional exhaustion, cynicism, reduced personal accomplishment and MBI total points of Bachelor medical staff are signifi-cantly higher than those of colleges as well as secondary schools and below (P=0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.012); ⑤The scores of reduced personal achievement of Lahu medical staff are higher than those of other ethnic groups (P=0.009). Conclusion In medical staffs in minority border areas there exists a certain extent of job burnout, which presents differences among genders, educational background, hos-pitals and ethnic groups.